Böcker av Myrtle Stedman

In "The Ups and Downs of Living Alone in Later Life," Myrtle Stedman follows and develops the ideas expressed in her previously-published trilogy: "Of One Mind," "The Way Things Are or Could Be" and "Of Things to Come." In the process of her writing, she has come to view the Mind as Universal expression and receptivity ever driven by the Spirit of a biological urge-Its creativity evolving whatever It sets Itself to do for the love of doing. With a sense of humor, honesty and simplicity, she sees the Mind''s work blinking in and out of range or sight, much like an artist works with a pencil in one hand and an eraser in the other, the creative attainment ever evolving. Two age-old questions, "God created" or "evolution," are thus settled to her satisfaction in this, her fourth book on the Creative Mind. * * * * * * Myrtle Stedman was a member of PEN New Mexico, a branch of PEN Center USA West of International PEN and believed that there is no end to what the mind can do with the eye and hand, in time and in spirit. She is also the author of "Artists in Adobe," "Adobe Architecture," "Adobe Remodeling and Fireplaces," "Artists in Adobe," "A House Not Made with Hands," "Of One Mind," "Of Things to Come," "Ongoing Life," "Rural Architecture," and "The Way Things Are or Could Be," all from Sunstone Press. Larry Dossey, MD, author of "Reinventing Medicine," said, "...confident, lyrical, and unhurried-a wise woman reflecting on a meaningful life. After nearly a century, Myrtle Stedman retains the wide-eyed wonder of innocence and the skill to impart it. She is one of the world''s best arguments for honoring the wisdom of elders."

Through her forthright and open yearning to understand the mysteries of the Mind, Stedman articulates our own deep seeking. Her probing questions prod us into curiosity and consternation. Her answers startle and delight. Put together with its structural bones she gives us a clear picture of the creative process in non-classical poetic verse that flows and snags and flows again through life and death to life again. Chapters include Automatic Writing, Channeling, and Living by Grace. This is the first book of Myrtle Stedman's Universal Mind trilogy. The other two are "Of Things to Come" and "The Way Things Are or Could Be." * ** * * Myrtle Stedman was a member of PEN New Mexico, a branch of PEN Center USA West of International PEN and believed that there is no end to what the mind can do with the eye and hand, in time and in spirit. She is also the author of "Artists in Adobe," "Adobe Architecture," "Adobe Remodeling and Fireplaces," "A House Not Made with Hands," "Of Things to Come," "Ongoing Life," "Rural Architecture," "The Ups and Downs of Living Alone in Later Life," and "The Way Things Are or Could Be," all from Sunstone Press.

Readers are given vivid examples of how the Universal Mind turns imagery into reality, invited to ponder and explore this mechanism in their current lives, and to examine the potential for humanity''s future evolution. The other two books in the Universal Mind Trilogy, all written in non-classical poetic verse, are "Of One Mind" and "The Way Things Are or Could Be." * * * * * Myrtle Stedman has been described as "both innocence and heirloom." Designated in 1985 as a "Living Treasure" in northern New Mexico, this award-winning artist, architect, and writer is the author of ten books, including "Artists in Adobe," "Adobe Architecture," "Adobe Remodeling and Fireplaces," "A House Not Made with Hands," "Of One Mind," "Ongoing Life," "Rural Architecture," "The Ups and Downs of Living Alone in Later Life," and "The Way Things Are or Could Be," all from Sunstone Press. Myrtle Stedman was a member of PEN New Mexico, a branch of PEN Center USA West of International PEN and believed that there is no end to what the mind can do with the eye and hand, in time and in spirit.

In this collection of the author''s most personal thoughts and experiences, both real and imagined, she examines her own belief systems, family problems, advancing years, triumphs, and blends them into loose flowing poetry which laughs and cries to be read. Readers will find much of themselves in this timely book. The author says, "First and foremost I acknowledge the Mind as the creator and the substance of that which it creates. We couldn''t even imagine a universe or anything in it without the Mind. It is the Mind that expresses itself and conceives that which it expresses. It is this male and female that is the basis for the production of all that exists. It is to the Mind and in the spirit of its contemplation that I attribute the end resolves of family and all life situations which enter into ongoing life today and into life beyond the grave, never dying, never forgetting." * * * * * Myrtle Stedman was a member of PEN New Mexico, a branch of PEN Center USA West of International PEN and believed that there is no end to what the mind can do with the eye and hand, in time and in spirit. She is also the author of "Artists in Adobe," "Adobe Architecture," "Adobe Remodeling and Fireplaces," "Artists in Adobe," "House Not Made with Hands," "Of One Mind," "Of Things to Come, "Rural Architecture," "The Ups and Downs of Living Alone in Later Life," and "The Way Things Are or Could Be," all from Sunstone Press.

He couldn''t say "I love you" until the end. And now he was gone. Before, there was the intense love affair mixed with deep disappointments and hurts that started in the 1920s and developed over the years when the two were artists and architects in Santa Fe and Taos. Afterwards, she went on-on to reach new heights as she became a famous builder of adobe houses and a painter of all that surrounded her. But his influence remained and it permeates her writing as firmly as the mind that dominated her before his death. Yet this seems to stimulate her probing deeper into her own self and she transports the reader to the art colonies, the blue skies and clean, cool air of northern New Mexico over several decades. Is this a love story? Perhaps not. More likely this is a study in the transforming of attitudes, shaping the reader''s thought to appreciate everything about everyday life, encouraging joy in every emotion, searching for one''s own consciousness.

In this dynamic and timely statement about biological and spiritual life, readers are treated to refreshing observations of daily life interwoven with this elder''s persistent curiosity about the nature of the Universe. It is put together in an episodic and anecdotal fashion in a collection of poems, each with its own character and unified in an overall rhythm. It portrays a satirical, a down to earth, and a heavenly attitude toward life all in one. In it is an insight to the Creative Mind and what the knowledge of its working principle could mean to our health and well being and to our associations in an expanding consciousness of our particular species as males and females in the total field of Universal Being. And it is here that she wishes to acknowledge the importance of her artist husband''s remark that "most of what we call love is just a biological urge" which gave her the impetus to see in this urge the will and the willingness to live together. She still doesn''t know if this would satisfy Einstein''s question, "Is the universe friendly?" She has said, "yes," definitely, it is even in love. The other two books in this Universal Mind Trilogy are "Of One Mind" and "Of Things to Come," all written in non-classical poetic verse. * * * * * Myrtle Stedman was a member of PEN New Mexico, a branch of PEN Center USA West of International PEN and believed that there is no end to what the mind can do with the eye and hand, in time and in spirit. She is also the author of "Artists in Adobe," "Adobe Architecture," "Adobe Remodeling and Fireplaces," "Artists in Adobe," "A House Not Made with Hands," "Of One Mind," "Of Things to Come," "Ongoing Life," "Rural Architecture," and "The Ups and Downs of Living Alone in Later Life," all from Sunstone Press.